Strategic priority areas
Strategic priority areas for 2024-28:
Safer Communities
1. We will have sustainable and scalable interventions in place to mitigate the risks likely to affect our communities
2. We will optimise the use of data to prioritise and target people who may be at greater risk of fire and other emergencies.
3. We will ensure we have skilled professionals in place to monitor (and enforce non-compliance) relevant fire safety legislation in the built environment
4. We will monitor, support and carry out duties as required under the Civil Contingencies Act.
Service Delivery
5. We will provide sustainable mobilising, command and control infrastructure
6. We will streamline the way we manage data and the technology we use to access it
7. We will ensure we have a sustainable response model
8. We will ensure the health and safety of our staff remains a priority
Value for Money
9. We will provide training and development facilities that are fit for the future
10. We will invest in our ability to deliver service wide improvements
11. We will further develop our performance measurement and management capability
12. We will develop our plans to invest in the future of the service as a force multiplier
People
13. We will develop leadership and management capability at all levels in the service
14. We will use innovative practices to attract, select and champion talented people, enabling diversity and embracing difference
15. We will develop the diverse skill sets of our people to build an agile, professional and competent workforce
16. We will continue to develop a happy, healthy and resilient workforce